Tour the Benartex Booth: Quilt Market

Take a virtual tour of our booths at Quilt Market! Today we're sharing the Benartex section of the booth; next up will be Contempo and Kanvas. 

We're celebrating 20 years of Paula Nadelstern fabric design! The booth highlighted her new collection, More is More, along with a retrospective of all of her fabric lines.

Thank you, Paula, for 20 years of gorgeous fabric!

A gallery of square quilts made by various designers using Paula's fabric:

An advent calendar with gorgeously detailed ornaments counting down each day.

Fabric and beaded spheres, as well as a dimensional star from Indygo Junction.

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Next up is Nancy Halvorsen's new collection, Home Grown. It includes a panel ready for fussy cutting and plenty of Nancy's whimsical applique designs.

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Ann Lauer brings the cats back with Cat-I-Tude 2: Purr-Fect Together.

She's wearing a jacket made with Cat-I-Tude 2 prints!

Fussy cut cats alternate with star blocks.

We love the furniture!

And a tote bag:

Take a sneak peek at Jackie Robinson's new Christmas collection, A Festive Season 3.

We hope you enjoyed seeing the quilts featured in the Benartex section of our booth. Tomorrow we'll be sharing the Contempo booth, and then the Kanvas booth on Sunday.

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Everyone's a Star Quilt Along: Week 1

Welcome to the first week of our Quilt Along! 

Today we'll be showing you digital images of our three quilt versions, as well as providing yardage and cutting information. 

Stephanie's Liberty Garden version:

Click here for a printable pdf of the Liberty Garden fabric requirements.

Debby's Moon Flower version: 

Click here for a printable pdf of the Moon Flower fabric requirements.

Lisa's Zentastic version:

Click here for a printable pdf of the Zentastic fabric requirements.

Join us to make this quilt in just 5 weeks! 

Which version will you make? Or will you use another Benartex, Kanvas, or Contempo line to create our Everyone's a Star quilt? Share your progress by e-mailing your pictures to us at BenartexQAL2017@gmail.com – we will post them on Facebook and Instagram throughout the Quilt Along. We are looking forward to quilting with you!

**PRIZE ALERT** 

Email us a photo of your finished Everyone's a Star quilt top made with any Benartex/Kanvas/Contempo fabric collection for a chance to win a box of Fossil Fern fat quarters! (Bonus entry if your quilt is quilted and bound as well!)
Email your photo by Thursday, April 6, 2017 to be entered in the drawing. 

Come back Thursday, February 9th for the tutorial to create Block #1!

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Introducing a whole new look!

We pride ourselves on staying current and connected--from our fabric collections to quilt patterns to ways to create a community with our customers, our goal is to be at the head of the pack.  We've been working hard on a project, and it's time to share our fresh new look.

We are excited to introduce our redesigned website!

Benartex.com homepage

What does this new-look website mean for you?

It's easier than ever to search out your favorite new fabric lines.  We've divided the website into separate areas for Benartex, Kanvas, and Contempo collections. Pick your favorite or browse all three. 

Free patterns and large-scale swatches at your fingertips. Navigate your way through our free pattern section, and click on the round swatches for larger views, including a ruler for scale.

Surround yourself with inspiration. Clean, bright photos show our fabrics in their best light and offer ideas for using them. With images this appealing, you'll never want to leave!

More ways to stay connected. Easily accessible links to News and Fabric Locator tabs, plus social media options, from a quick link to the blog to Facebook and our Pinterest boards. 

Take a quick peek at the screen shots below, and then head over to the website to check it out yourself!

The Benartex page, featuring our classic collections.

Kanvas, novelty prints and more

Contempo; the new face of modern

When you click on the Fabric Gallery, here's what you'll find:

And then click on a specific fabric line to see all the available swatches.

Free pattern gallery, alphabetized and organized!

We invite you to browse around our redesigned website--get to know it, enjoy it, and discover a new fabric line today! 

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QuiltCon 2015

Last week we had the pleasure of exhibiting at QuiltCon 2015, a modern quilt show and conference in Austin, TX, hosted by the Modern Quilt Guild. Today we would like to share some pictures that we took at QuiltCon and let you know about all of the things that we saw!

Our booth featured "Our Town," one of our newest lines from Contempo Studios designed by Michele D’Amore.

 

The runner quilts that were displayed in our booth will be available soon as free patterns on our website! The quilt on the table is from Deanne Moore's book titled "Fabric Play." To find out more about this great quilt pattern and book, visit Creative Sewlutions.

We shared the booth space with our sister company - Brewer. They are a distributor of all things sewing, quilting, and crafting. Here is their booth display:

Check out what is available ... Benartex scissors and bias tape makers! Your local quilt shop can order them through Brewer.

And here is a picture of our entire Benartex/Brewer booth:

On Thursday we gave a talk called "Think Big" showing quilts that use big prints and/or big blocks to make a BIG impact!

Each day we had a fun little project to demonstate to the attendees - and a free pattern and kit for them to take home. One of our projects was a four patch coaster:

Watching the demo:

A lovely little girl named Emily got to sew for the very first time - making a coaster to take home:

Our other project was a luggage tag:

 

One quilter even ran home after the show on Friday to make her luggage tag and brought it back to show us!

               

We had a great time meeting and talking to all of the quilters that visited our booth! Please stop back here on Monday to see  our pictures of the magnificent show quilts--so much inspiration!

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Mix and Match Quiz: Day 4

We're still in Pittsburgh at Quilt Market, so today we're sharing Day 4 of our Mix and Match Quiz. Get a sneak peek at the new lines we're debuting at the show, and guess which prints go together! 

To learn more about the Mix and Match Quiz, read the original post here. 

Here's a Rules Recap as well:

**THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED**

Rule recap:

• Look at the focal print shown. From the five potential coordinating prints shown, choose the number that you think is part of the same collection as the focal print.
• Send an email to socialmedia23 (at) gmail.com with the subject line of "Day 4" and then your guess (for example: Day 4 - #1, or Day 4 - #5). Feel free to leave comments below this post as well, but you must send an email to be entered in the contest.
• The contest for Day 4 will be open from Sunday, May 18 at 12 noon EST through Monday, May 19 at 11:59 EST. Only entries received within that time period will be eligible for the drawing. 
• Next week, we'll randomly select a winner from each day's quiz answers (you don't have to guess correctly to win), as well as share the correct answers to each quiz. Winners will receive a fat quarter bundle of that day's collection.
• Be sure to come back on Monday--the Day 5 quiz (last one for this contest!) will be posted at noon. 
• If you have a question, leave a comment below.

Have fun and good luck! 

Day 4 Focal print, from Kanvas's Sunflower Fields collection:

Guess its coordinating print:

Option #1:

Option #2:

Option #3:

Option #4:

Option #5:

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